These instruments are used to accurately predict next-to-skin comfort and can calibrate a garment’s touch, or handle, to the specific requirements of a brand and its target customer.

Milspec Manufacturing general manager Neil Morrison said the technology was now being produced in volume for AWTA’s national and international clients. “As a manufacturer of subsystems to defence and industry, this has been a really interesting project,” Morrison said. “Our part in this project was to take the design and ingenuity of this Australian product and redesign for manufacturing repeatability.”